Among the many disquieting truths that appear in the sprawling report from the Za’atari refugee camp recently penned by the New Yorker’s David Remnick, an exchange with a UNICEF official Dominique Hyde about the nature of children’s artwork there was particularly affecting. Hyde tells Remnick, “You look at their drawings: blood, weapons, corpses. I have an eleven-year-old and a three-year-old, and I never see them make drawings like that.” (continue reading, click here)
http://hyperallergic.com/84350/how-art-is-helping-children-in-one-syrian-refugee-camp/
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